a type of pornography for women? I've actually read some of them and a lot of romance novels are pretty explicit (like porno without picures).
2006-11-24 10:07:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
Pretty much. Women aren't supposed to be into sex, though, so we have to pretend these books are about "romance" and love, and we have to filter everything through our stereotypes of what women should want and be like. The things are usually bad retellings of _The Taming of the Shrew_, with a very immature, always virginal woman and a strong, sensitive daddy figure. I've even read them where the guy spanks the girl! And not in the sexy way!
Not that you guys have it much better, I suppose, what with the emotional distance and power plays of lots of men's porn. Thank goodness for erotica. There's more and more plot-driven, intelligent porn books being written every year, hooray!
2006-11-24 13:15:34 · answer #1 · answered by random6x7 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All novels hinge on tension. People who read romance novels enjoy the romantic tension between the hero and heroine, the question of how and if they can ever get together. People who like adventure or fantasy novels like the tension of whether or not the hero/heroine will be able to accomplish their quest without getting killed, or whatever. People who like literary fiction feed off the tension of how the character will achieve their goal, become their true selves, whatever. Same story, different genres. Personally I don't think enjoying a story about whether or not a man and woman get together is any weirder than liking about book about whether a person will survive the scheme of a pissed-off wizard or whether a Victorian girl will marry for money or become a scholarly spinster. Erotica is a different story. Most women who read romance novels don't read erotica, and many of them will skip over the sex scenes in a regular novel because they find them boring. They're reading for the excitement the tension provides, not the sex. Erotica and romance are separate genres, although they do overlap at times.
2016-05-22 23:05:57 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, well, there are actually two kinds of this genre, from what I've recently heard.The old-school ones, and the porn ones.
Which is great. Men are somewhat more stimulated by visual images than are women. Women can actually get a kick out of words. This means that a woman can be excited, without facing the issues of degradation that we associate with actual women exposing themselves for men's pleasure.
Read on!
2006-11-25 00:34:04 · answer #3 · answered by starryeyed 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes I believe that they can be. I like to the read christian romance books and that is why because of the filth in the other ones. The Christian romance books are free of bad words and the scenes in the other books. I hope that this helps you and lets you realize that there are alternatives to the romance novels that are very explicit.
2006-11-24 12:03:35 · answer #4 · answered by Shell 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sure that is why the term for them is bodice rippers. I really love to read Laurel K. Hamilton novels.
2006-11-24 10:45:25 · answer #5 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You haven't said what you've read but words are always better than images because the imagination can put anyone in, with imagery it is hard to change what you see using your mind.
2006-11-24 10:14:32 · answer #6 · answered by Aaron 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Sure, they are soft core porn for lots of women who would be shocked to hear that. But, there are many women who use them to kick start their fantasies and self pleasure. That's the truth. :)
2006-11-24 10:19:06 · answer #7 · answered by Isis 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋